Template:December 26

Second Day of the Feast of the Nativity;
Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos;
Commemoration of the Flight into Egypt of the Most Blessed Theotokos;
The holy righteous ones: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord;
Saint Archelaus, Bishop of Harran in Northern Mesopotamia (ca.280);
Saint Zeno (Zenon), Bishop of Majuma (the port of Gaza), in Palestine (4th c.);
Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis (Euthymios the Confessor), Bishop of Sardis (840);
Venerable Evaristus (Evarestos), Monk of the Studion Monastery (825);
Saint Dionysius of Rome, Pope of Rome (268);
Saint Marinus, the son of a senator in Rome, he was martyred by beheading under Numerian (283);
Saint Zosimus of Rome, a Greek Pope of Rome (418);
Saint Tathai (Tathan, Tathaeus, Athaeus), Abbot of Llantathan (early 6th c.);
Saint Jarlath, first Bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois, near Tuam (Ireland) (ca. 540);
Saint Theodore the Sacrist, a holy man and contemporary of St Gregory the Great in Rome (6th c.);
Saint Amaethlu (Maethlu) (6th c.);
Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, Romania (1406);
New Hieromartyr Constantius the Russian, Priest at Constantinople, by beheading (1743);
New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, Priests (1918);
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, and Nicholas, Priests, and Michael, Deacon (1930);
New Hieromartyr Leonidas (Antoshchenko), Bishop of Mariisk (1937);
New Hieromartyr Basil (Mazurenko), Hieromonk (1937);
New Martyr Augusta (Zashchuk), Schema-Nun (1937);
Virgin-martyrs Anthisa and Makaria (1937);
New Hieromartyr Andrew, Bishop of Ufa (1937);
New Martyr, Valentina, (1937);
Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1937);
Venerable New Hieromartyr Isaac II (Bobrikov), Archimandrite of Optina Monastery (1938);
New Hieromartyr Gregory, Priest (1938);
Virgin-martyrs Augusta and Mary (1938);
Martyr Agrippina (1938);
Other Commemorations:
Repose of Abbot Barlaam the Righteous of Valaam and Optina Monasteries (1849);
Repose of Archimandrite Irenarchus (Rosetti) of Mt. Tabor (1859);
Icons:
Icon of the "Mother of God of "Vilna" ("Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn");
Icon of the Mother of God "the Three Joys";
Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" (Greek: Eleousa);
Icon of the Mother of God "the Blessed Womb" or "Barlovsk" (1392);
Icon of the Mother of God "Baibuzsk" (Baibuskaya) (1852).